Tag: India film

Lights go out at historic Delhi cinema after 84 years

by Bhuvan BAGGA Agence France-Presse NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — After years of slow but steady decline the colonial-era Regal cinema, a New Delhi institution, is enjoying a late flourishing — sadly just as it is about to close its doors. Manager Roop Ghai says families have been flocking to the crumbling white building at the heart of the Indian capital since learning that it is shutting down, a victim of competition from the gleaming […]